Ebook: American mania: when more is not enough
Author: Whybrow Peter C
- Tags: Consumption (Economics)--Health aspects--United States, Happiness, Self-interest--United States, Social ethics--United States, Social values--United States, Wealth--Social aspects--United States, Self-interest, Social ethics, Social values, Wealth--Social aspects, Social values -- United States, Wealth -- Social aspects -- United States, Consumption (Economics) -- Health aspects -- United States, Self-interest -- United States, Social ethics -- United States, Wealth -- Social aspects, United States
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: London;New York;United States
- Language: English
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A doctor's bold analysis of the cultural disease that afflicts us all.Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity, and time urgency are now grudgingly accepted as part of everyday existence they signal the American Dream gone awry.
Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, grounds the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American nation in an understanding of the biology of the brain's reward system offering for the first time a comprehensive and physical explanation for the addictive mania of consumerism.
American Mania presents a clear and novel vantage point from which to understand the most pressing social issues of our time, while offering an informed approach to refocusing our pursuit of happiness. Drawing upon rich scientific case studies and...